Moscow, 1937

Moscow, 1937

Over the last thirty years, Karl Schlögel has been the most
distinguished flâneur among historians of Russia. A sense of place –
both as the setting for human encounters and something that conditions
cultural and intellectual life – has informed much of his work. In
1984 he published Moskau lesen, an essayistic exploration of the
Soviet capital, while his later books include a history of St
Petersburg in the early 20th century which sees the city as a
‘laboratory of modernity’, and a study of Russian-German interactions
through the prism of Berlin, which Schlögel christens ‘Europe’s
Ostbahnhof’.